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Trump's concern over voter fraud echos his remarks after the 2016 election, when he claimed without evidence that millions of people had voted illegally.

The President convened at Voter Fraud Commission last year, but disbanded it in January, claiming that states were refusing to provide commissioners with data needed to proceed.

There were reports that the commission had turned up scant evidence of the kind of widespread voter fraud Trump claimed, however.

Still, there have been investigations and prosecutions of voter fraud violations on a more limited scale in recent months.

In August, the U.S. attorney's office in Raleigh announced that 19 foreign nationals had been charged with registering to vote or casting ballots illegally because they weren't U.S. citizens.

More than half were indicted by a grand jury in Wilmington, according to an August 24 news release from U.S. Attorney Bobby Higdon's office.

Trump is seen speaking in Nevada on Saturday, where early voting has already begun

Last month, a woman in Houston was ordered deported after pleading guilty to illegally voting in the 2016 election.

Laura Janeth Garza, 38, entered the country as a young girl.

She was about 12 years old, her lawyer said, when her mother and uncle told her assume the identity of a cousin who was a U.S. citizen but had moved to Mexico.

The lawyer didn't know how Garza voted, but said she offered to return to Mexico if the charges were dropped.

Last year, a jury in Fort Worth sentenced Mexican national Rosa Maria Ortega to eight years in prison for illegal voting in a case that drew widespread attention because of the severity of the punishment, since voting fraud convictions many times result in probation.

Ortega, who was accused of improperly casting a ballot five times between 2005 and 2014, was a permanent U.S. resident whose attorney said mistakenly thought she was eligible to vote. Ortega, who has four teenage children, is likely to face deportation upon leaving prison.